“There is no way to handle this!”
Lemoore, California, midway between those great centres of American homelessness, Los Angeles and San Francisco, is bracing for the melting of “historic” snow pack from the nearby Sierra Nevada following epic rains that had already beat up the town and drowned farms.
There’s already been so much rain that Tulare Lake, once the second-largest freshwater lake in the US but drained to nothing by canals and irrigation a century ago, has suddenly reappeared.
Wild times and blame climate change, Trump, I suppose, and prayers to the poor workers of Lemoore, living from one lousy pay cheque to the next, but prayers, also, for surf fans who’ve paid $9790.86 for the Surf Ranch Pro Experience Package, only to be trapped in a stinking cattle town for a weekend and staring out the locked window of their underwhelming Tachi Palace room as the joint disappears under floodwater.
The five-thousand dollar glamping packages might be an unwise choice, however.
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Not enough water…people complain.
Too much water…people complain.
Chuck ELO in a volcano!
follow the 405 north from Huntington and get off on Torrance Blvd: Nissan. TRW. McDonnell-Douglas, Raytheon, IHOP, LAX, Jacob’s surfboards. “DriveTest our 280Z.”
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Mrs was cleaning out some photo albums and came across mid 80’s photos of notorious points before the deluge of kooks. Pretty cool stuff. Empty point break lineups. Just rummaging through them now.
When I got divorced in ’92, the ex burned in the fireplace a 2 hour edited video of me at a spot near Campo de Caleta. It was my pride, would only show it to a limited few unlike these days. Very unlike. That was our code. Even had 20 minutes of empty Barra on it. She also burned my still photo album and another tape of empty Angourie and Seal Rocks. Cunt.
I had a small portfolio in the garage that I kept, only thing that survived her anger streak. Saw her at her mom’s funeral and she apologized a hundred times, but she erased my late 80’s and early 90’s.
I thought you would appreciate my discretion.
Hotels in Huatulco get pretty decadent too.
uno mundo, Mi Ho. hard to tell the good from the bad & ugly…whistle that…(think Clint Eastwood)
9700. to hang at the Surf Ranch.
Or
2 months in NZ.
3 weeks in Kandui with a blow out in Singapore.
Maldives 5 star luxury for 12 days.
Jeffrey’s for the season.
Mexi jungles for 2 months.
Grand Hyatt Kauai for 8 days.
Week at Tavarua/Namotu
Tortola for two weeks
Costa Rica for a month, lux.
Or, Lemoore for two nights?
Still living the Mex summer roadtrip dream. 2 months sleeping in the van beachside at a bunch of spots that have zero to minimal crowd. Spent 2,100$ for the whole trip last year. …..it’s still there
I did 3 months in 1980 with 400.
Know what you mean, but I wouldn’t camp there anymore. We had sketchy check points throughout the 80’s, 90’s, but I’m choosing hotels now.
Did it again this summer. Never a problem but tons of great food and waves!
Rosewood for the Win!
shapers are considering their options…
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Conditions don’t mater as Elo and JMD will be spitting out auto-spam news bragging on WSL successes from their 5 star secret bedroom suite funded by worldwide entry fees.
Great now Lemoore will be even more unwatchable with its new permanent “high tide” swamping those huge barrels into San O mushburgers
Would you rather live in a goat shit filled swamp, or the Central Valley?
Noah D.: “Fuck, the WSL could use my arcing turns. My arc. Fuck the WSL.”
Even with all the rain and snowmelt you can count on the multbillion dollar ag industry complaining about their virtually free, taxpayer subsidized water allocations. Build more dams!
Excellent article and photos.
A river runs (May27th [through] May 28th) it.
Archimedes wouldn’t go.
answer: Is that the dude that can walk on water?
As for the surf ranch pro, they gotta know it’s gonna take a lot more than melting snow to move the arrow on the ol’ give-a-shit-o’ meter :/
$9790.86, fuck me!
Surely that comes with a complementary blumpkin from the GOAT?
What plants are being suggested for native regeneration at Bells – wattle, banksia? Maybe Soya beans for Bonsoy sponsorship? Can they rebuild the reef there too or at least plant seaweed ? Have they replaced the stairs with Baileys ladders ?
Too many questions – I’m frothing on what initiatives the Woz have for us
@Beef&Beer @tallfuckinladders #tallfuckinladders #cunts
Ice plant
meanwhile, back to Lemoore…Chinese are buying up local ag lands. “we need more rice!” meanwhile, awaiting the bells, the Chinese are buying up vineyards to plant more rice: “we need more rice wine!” (or is that Marg’s?)
Once flooded maybe we can turn the train into 50K plus pieces of surf sculpture, and all his timber work into 12K coffee tables – so win win
Slater on the table bandwagon too, just a different Thai factory.